What's the difference between bum and layabout?

Bum


Definition:

  • (n.) The buttock.
  • (v. i.,) To make murmuring or humming sound.
  • (n.) A humming noise.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) How often do we use the term depressed to mean disappointed, mildly bummed out or sort of blue?
  • (2) It’s a good principle: don’t complain to people on whom you’re relying – unless there’s no way they can wipe your steak on their bum or drop a bogey in your soup.
  • (3) Even more graphically than Picasso’s Women of Algiers with their multiple breasts and bums, Nu couché is a sensual masterpiece – and far more conventionally so than anything Picasso painted.
  • (4) "There's this mistaken idea we were just prancing about in platform shoes and bare bums to go against the grain.
  • (5) One turns up for bums, rampant historical misrepresentation and a man in a wig roaring "spiritus sanctus" in a 13th-century CGI inferno.
  • (6) "All those vuvuzuelas must be interfering with Cha Bum-Kun's ability to remote control his robot creation - er, son - Cha Du-ri," suggests Angela K, a South Korean expat in the US.
  • (7) Little Baby Bum is also exploring the potential of getting its content onto connected televisions.
  • (8) Fact is they are fooling the fans fighting all these bums on the back of my name to hype his fights and profile saying I’m running scared.” Eddie Hearn (@EddieHearn) made but enough of the insults.
  • (9) A gurgling loaf with a sheepdog's haircut and a repertoire of Latin bum jokes.
  • (10) But non-gaming children’s channels are also popular: the biggest channel on YouTube in October was toy-unboxing channel DC Toys Collector , with nursery-rhyme channel Little Baby Bum also in the top five on YouTube that month.
  • (11) Further cleavage of Bum fragments with Hpa-1 also revealed inversions of the terminal sequences that contained unique sequences.
  • (12) If you’ve got one video that’s 50 or 60 minutes long, you can just press play and leave your child to watch it while you get something done.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest However, he says that feedback from parents suggests Little Baby Bum is far more than just a digital distraction for their children.
  • (13) Such as the time I was walking down Oxford Street in central London and passed a man who thought it perfectly OK to pat my bum as he went by.
  • (14) Awaiting his razor-sharp skills are four Cambridge lads sporting varying degrees of bum fluff.
  • (15) The flame is never extinguished.” Olympic flame extinguished by Rio protesters Seeking comfort in drivel Alexis Petridis considers Khloe Kardashian’s thoughts on vitamin E vaginal oil, topless model Katie Price’s “double-bum selfie”, or the news that Kris Jenner refused to visit Cuba with the Kardashian brood.
  • (16) So how did a former punk rocker, DJ and self-confessed party animal who became a chef almost by accident (while bumming around Europe he applied to do a cooking course in Belgium so he could get a visa), and from a country with little reputation on the world food scene, change the way people think about Brazilian food?
  • (17) Fury is short, enthusiastic and turns a memorable phrase: the south, he contends, gets a bum rap.
  • (18) And yet, against the odds, Rocky Balboa has been both a critical and commercial success in the US, precisely because it taps into what made the first Rocky film so powerful 30 years earlier: when Rocky ran the steps all those years ago his goal was not to win but to go the distance, to prove to himself that he was somebody and not "just another bum from the neighbourhood".
  • (19) The funniest sketch I’ve ever seen Roger Mann and Kevin Eldon’s “Australian clowns” dialogue in Simon Munnery’s live show Cluub Zarathustra, from 25 years ago, in which the duo described the clowning process in painful detail in stoned Australian beach-bum voices.
  • (20) If somebody’s taken the bother to email – they’ve gone off YouTube to our website, found the contact page and written an email – they deserve to get something back.” Children’s videos are huge on YouTube, with six of its top 10 channels in January aimed at kids: toy-unboxing channels Funtoys Collector and Blu Toys ; Minecraft gamer Stampy ; Little Baby Bum; and two Russian animation channels, Masha and the Bear and GetMovies .

Layabout


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nick Offerman, the comic he-man of Parks and Recreation, stars as Ignatius J Reilly, a gluttonous and concupiscent layabout, slothfully adrift in New Orleans.
  • (2) Hailed by Duncan Smith and rightwing London as the incentive that would propel the unemployed into work, universal credit has become Whitehall's equivalent of a layabout yob: nothing can make it work.
  • (3) But it’s arguably worse for them because being a member of the idle rich is harder to justify than it used to be and royals can’t hide from public attention easily, as old-school layabouts still can on Benefits Street or Billionaires’ Row.
  • (4) It was Jane who spotted ability and ambition in the teenage layabout.
  • (5) I would not mind if the “chirps” were ever actually funny, but most of them remind me of what my children thought were jokes when they were three and the rest are just nasty sniping from overprivileged layabouts.
  • (6) In order to delegitimise the camp, lots of passersby I met wanted to pigeonhole the protesters as either unrealistic youngsters, or lazy layabouts.
  • (7) Does it maybe not even just strengthen the protesters' cause, as it reminds us that these aren't layabouts with nothing else to do; many are professionals with jobs to maintain, students with essays to write, or parents with children to care for.
  • (8) Since it was turned over to the public in May 2010, the site has been immensely popular with families, joggers, rollerbladers, kite-flyers, wind-karters, urban gardeners, yoga enthusiasts, hipsters and layabouts; smoke rises in summer from the abundance of barbecues.
  • (9) Perhaps caps should be put on inherited wealth in order to avoid these feckless layabouts being tempted to kill innocents for financial gain?
  • (10) (Layabout sibling Willow was a doddering six-year-old by the time her own acting career began).
  • (11) Meanwhile, the anti-union Mail, Express and Sun have expressed their honeyed "understanding" for people they would normally castigate as wreckers and layabouts.
  • (12) He added: "We've got three and a half million layabouts laying about on benefits and I'm 76 getting up at six o'clock in the morning to go to work to keep them."
  • (13) His story about a society beset by jobless layabouts who opt for unemployment as a lifestyle choice doesn’t just seek to describe a problem, it lays the moral foundations for a whole raft of policies demonising the most vulnerable sections of already deprived communities.
  • (14) This is not about immigrants, it's not about junkies, it's not about lazy layabouts pretending to be sick and disabled, it's about ordinary people who worked in the steel works, or BHS, or any other business which has failed or been sold off by the government and their super rich cronies.

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